-Call for political and social reform could also lead to renewed emphasis on the role of the state as it did in the utilitarianism of Englishman, Jeremy Bentham
-Believed he could rationally deduce practical programs from universal principles
-Criticized the legal system
-Rejected the doctrine of natural rights as a meaningless abstraction
-System utility replaced natural rights as the basis of public policy
-Measured by determining the greatest food for the greatest number
-He combined plans of reform with a theory of psychology
The good is that which avoids pain and gives pleasure
-Bentham gave the state a central role
-Bentahm’s followers called themselves philosophic radicals
-Believed he could rationally deduce practical programs from universal principles
-Criticized the legal system
-Rejected the doctrine of natural rights as a meaningless abstraction
-System utility replaced natural rights as the basis of public policy
-Measured by determining the greatest food for the greatest number
-He combined plans of reform with a theory of psychology
The good is that which avoids pain and gives pleasure
-Bentham gave the state a central role
-Bentahm’s followers called themselves philosophic radicals